I've recently moved back to Lake Macquarie after some years in Canberra, and I'm delighted to find that there are more cycle paths around the central coast and Lake Macquarie than I was previously aware of. Unfortunately many of them are either incomplete or disconnected from each other.
I am wanting to scout out optimal on-road routes to connect cycle paths into excellent recreational routes. For instance the recently opened Fernleigh (Rail trail) Track ends in Belmont, and just a few kms away there is a great path around Green Point. I want to tag a route (probably as "lcn") through the streets of Belmont so that viewers can see how best to join these rides together. To my knowledge there is no official council-endorsed cycle route. I recognise some people may have a philosophical aversion to this, because it is tagging based on usefulness rather than on what is "actually on the ground". I feel, however, that we have an opportunity to scout out optimal connections and start using them for cycling now, while we lobby councils to make such routes "official". I would choose a tagging scheme along the lines of "network=lcn" with "status=unofficial" or something so that these routes could be located by a search algorithm if needed. I've spent a while looking around the web, and there are no decent cycling maps of the region to be found. OSM and OpenCycleMap would be a superb resource if we took the liberty of tagging "desired routes" such as I have outlined. How do you feel about this suggestion? - Lachlan
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